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#42Why is Parag making any major changes at this point? What "new vision" is he going to execute in his last few months at the company before Elon comes in and torpedoes it anyways?
He’s being paid millions to keep his hand on the wheel and not be distracted by a deal that may never close.
That's my point though. The board accepted the buyout offer. "Hands on the wheel" means keeping the lights on and making sure everything stays stable until the deal closes. Firing the company's product and revenue leads is the opposite of that.
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#43Letting people go while they’re on maternity or paternity leave us not cool.
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#44OT but one thing I've noticed is that Twitter has scaled back its aggressive modal/login prompt when viewing the site without being logged in. This seems to have occurred recently. It seems like it would have nothing to do with the acquisition talks but, curiously, it coincided with them.
if this is the individual responsible for that shit, I wish him a lifelong career in some other field
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#45OT but one thing I've noticed is that Twitter has scaled back its aggressive modal/login prompt when viewing the site without being logged in. This seems to have occurred recently. It seems like it would have nothing to do with the acquisition talks but, curiously, it coincided with them.
This may be in the middle of an A/B test - I still get pestered every time when in incognito mode.
Huh. I haven't been logged in on any of my devices and I never get pestered. Thanks for the update.
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#46I can't read this thread, a black screen pops up that asks me to log in.
i wonder if the guy who got fired was in charge of the decision to add that pop up…
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#47Twitter's consumer product team is truly awful and have just made the product more and more miserable to use, so I don't cry too much about the change in leadership. Having said that, firing someone on paternity leave is terrible and would be rightly illegal in many countries.
I'd strongly disagree just because of periscope alone, putting twitter at the forefront of citizen powered news, like livestream before it.
if your boss or board wants numbers, no product will ever end up good, no matter the people in the product teem
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#48> I’m just now learning that Parag fired Kayvon while he was on paternity leave, which is truly awful. > Parag is on his way out too. Why is he firing his product leaders during his lame-duck period? https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1524790595968901122
It's deeply weird, too.
In the enterprise, if someone high ranking is going to be replaced, they're never fired unless there was company-hostile bad behavior.
If the organization is trying to move in another direction, they reorganize and reduce the role of that high ranking leader- maybe to a position where they're alone! and give that high ranking person time to make their next move comfortably.
This goes double when the person is on leave.
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#49Twitter's consumer product team is truly awful and have just made the product more and more miserable to use, so I don't cry too much about the change in leadership. Having said that, firing someone on paternity leave is terrible and would be rightly illegal in many countries.
> firing someone on paternity leave is terrible
If he was paid through it, which I would assume-- any kind of senior dismissal will come with months of severance, what would the problem be?
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#50Why is Parag making any major changes at this point? What "new vision" is he going to execute in his last few months at the company before Elon comes in and torpedoes it anyways?
Why do you think this isn't what is required as part of the acquisition plan?
That's not how acquisitions work. Elon made the offer, it was accepted. Now the company has to continue to operate without his influence until the deal actually closes.